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Fang (Chinese: 方) is the 67th most prevalent Chinese surname.In Chinese, Fāng (方) means "square" or "four-sided". Fāng (方) is pronounced Fong in Cantonese, Hong or Png or Pwee in some Min Nan dialects and Png or Pung in Teochew.
Fang Fang (Chinese: 方方), pen name of Wang Fang (汪芳; born 11 May 1955), is a Chinese writer, known for her literary depictions of the working poor. She won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010. Born in Nanjing , she attended Wuhan University in 1978 to study Chinese.
Harper says "DeWoskin's attempt at a definition for fang shih which admits every possible meaning of fang into its analysis renders the term meaningless". Whatever fang or shih as separate words meant in an earlier period, when they were combined to form the name for wonder-workers who gathered at the Ch'in and Han courts, the name expressed ...
Fang Fēng ("wind" 風, simplified 风 ) is a Chinese surname of Fuxi (伏羲). Unlike the much more common Féng (冯, "gallop") surname which is pronounced with the second rising tone in Mandarin, "wind" is pronounced fēng.
various Chinese surnames the Hong Kong Government Cantonese romanization of the surname Fāng (Chinese: 方) the Taishanese pronunciation of the Chinese surname Kuàng (simplified Chinese: 邝; traditional Chinese: 鄺) a Malaysian–Singaporean form of Féng (simplified Chinese: 冯; traditional Chinese: 馮
The word paifang (Chinese: 牌坊; pinyin: páifāng) was originally a collective term for the top two levels of administrative division and subdivisions of ancient Chinese cities. The largest division within a city in ancient China was a fang (坊; fāng), equivalent to a current day ward. [1]
Laufer's interpretation takes fang to mean fangshi 方士 "alchemist; doctor; exorcist" and xiang to mean rénxiàng 人相 "look at and appraise; practice physiognomy". Bodde's translation "he who scrutinizes for evil spirits in many directions" [ 3 ] is based upon taking fang as meaning sifang "four/all directions" and taking xiang in its ...
Féng (simplified Chinese: 冯; traditional Chinese: 馮) is a Chinese surname.It is 9th in the Song Dynasty Hundred Family Surname poem and is reported as the 31st most common Chinese last name in 2006. [1]